Inside The Times

Published: February 14, 2011

International

IRANIAN LEADERS PROMISE

To Crush Pro-Egypt March

The Iranian leaders who cheered the popular overthrow of an Egyptian strongman last week have promised to crush an opposition march in solidarity with the Egyptian people. But opposition supporters, hoping the democratic uprisings sweeping the region
will rejuvenate their own movement, insist that the march will go forward. PAGE A12

COUNTERFEIT MOUTAI LIQUOR

In Maotai, China, an isolated mountain hamlet in southern Guizhou Province, almost everyone works for the distillery and spiking prices of the local liquor, called Moutai, have become a point of pride. But the higher prices have increased the ranks of
those who traffic in counterfeit Moutai and the authorities seem to be losing the battle against counterfeiters, who have perfected the look and taste of the real thing. PAGE A4

ONLINE HOLOCAUST ARCHIVE

Google has joined with Yad Vashem, keeper of the world's largest Holocaust archive, to begin creating a searchable database of photographs that allows users to add commentary, including historical background and family stories. The long-term goal
is to include Yad Vashem's larger archive of millions of documents, including survivor testimonials, diaries, letters and manuscripts. PAGE A6

CHINA'S WHEAT CRISIS

Even as senior Chinese officials exhort local and provincial officials to do everything possible to cope with a severe drought in the country's wheat belt, the government is trying to reassure the public that food prices will not rise. The worries
go beyond China, which has essentially been self-sufficient in grain for decades. The broader concern is that China, with 1.3 billion mouths to feed, may need to import wheat in volume, forcing soaring prices even
higher, and creating shortages elsewhere. PAGE A8

LOOKING KINDLY ON SUSPECTS

Residents of Ali-Yurt, Russia, a run-down little settlement in the Caucasus Mountains in the south of Russia, speak only kindly about the Yevloyev siblings, who grew up in the town, and who the authorities say built a bomb and detonated it in the international
arrivals hall of Moscow's busiest airport last month, killing 37 people. PAGE A6

SWISS VOTE ON WEAPONS BAN

Swiss voters, upholding their national tradition of an ever-ready citizen militia, rejected a proposal to ban army firearms from their homes, after an emotional national debate on the subject. PAGE A6

National

A HOUSE DEMOCRAT

Relishes Role Reversal

After two years of dodging Republican attacks on their ''job-destroying'' policies -- unsuccessfully, as midterm elections proved -- Democrats like Representative Chris Van Hollen find a sense of liberation in lobbing their own rhetorical
bombs. John Harwood, The Caucus. PAGE A16

SNAPSHOTS OF A COMET

NASA's Stardust spacecraft is set to zip past the comet Tempel at more than 24,000 miles per hour, taking 72 high-resolution pictures of the comet's surface. PAGE A16

New York

BEFORE DEADLY RAMPAGE,

Some Saw Warnings

No one in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, quite understood Maksim Gelman. But seemingly everyone who knew him agreed on one disturbing thing: his deep, unquenchable obsession for a young neighborhood woman who had rebuffed him and who, along with three other
people, the police say he killed over a 28-hour span. PAGE A19

Business

GROUPON IN JAPAN FACES GROWING PAINS

Groupon, which has confidently spurned a $6 billion takeover offer from Google, is not just a phenomenon in America. The deal-sharing service has found fertile ground in Japan, catching on even in places like Niigata that typically go unexplored by foreign
corporations. But if Groupon's rapid rise in Japan indicates the universal appeal of a good deal, the young company's performance is also exposing the difficulties of its simultaneous expansion at home
and overseas. PAGE B1

QUASHING A CLIMATE PARODY

In December, a fake news release was sent out by a group claiming to be Koch Industries, the oil processing company owned by Charles and David Koch, the Republican donors, arts benefactors and global warming skeptics. Months later, Koch is still pursuing
the identities of the members of the group that claimed responsibility for the prank, Youth for Climate Truth. Link by Link. PAGE B2

NETBOOKS LOSE CACHET

Not long ago, netbooks -- small notebook computers with an inexpensive price tag -- were considered the next big thing in computing, but they have been replaced by tablets. Industry executives and analysts say the netbook story offers real-world lessons
in technology innovation, business strategy and marketing. PAGE B1

Arts

A WRITER EXPLORES

The Pain of Losing a Spouse

Three years ago this month, Joyce Carol Oates lost Raymond J. Smith, her husband of more than 47 years. In ''A Widow's Story,'' she has written about the pain and madness that enveloped her during the year that followed. Her own
story happens to be a bit complicated, even if her memoir does not exactly say so. PAGE C1

'SWAN' OF COMPLEX SHADES

On the opening-night of New York City Ballet's production of ''Swan Lake,'' the performance of the two central roles was exemplary. Sara Mearns as Odette-Odile and Jared Angle as Prince Siegfried ignored not only the recent film
''Black Swan'' but also most of the mannerisms encrusted upon ''Swan Lake'' by recent generations of interpreters. PAGE C1

Sports

GEORGETOWN SURVIVES

Marquette Defense

Chris Wright scored 20 points, Austin Freeman added 17 despite limping badly off the court in the first half, and No. 11 Georgetown survived the run-'em-ragged strategy of visiting Marquette to win its eighth straight game, beating the Golden Eagles
69-60 Sunday. The win moved the Hoyas into sole possession of third place in the Big East and kept alive their longest conference win streak since 2006-7. PAGE D6

NASCAR WITHOUT EARNHARDT

Ten years ago Friday, Dale Earnhardt Sr. died when his No. 3 Chevrolet crashed into the outside wall of Turn 4 during the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. The impact of the loss was devastating for a sport that in many ways was epitomized by Earnhardt.
As Nascar enters the Daytona 500 after another year of dipping television ratings and faltering attendance, some point to his death as the reason for the decline in interest. PAGE D1

PENALTIES FRUSTRATE LEMIEUX

Two Islanders were suspended for a total of 13 games and the team was fined $100,000, yet it was Mario Lemieux, the Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner, who was most upset by the N.H.L.'s punishments handed out in the wake of a brawl-filled game Friday
night. Lemieux called the game a ''travesty'' and said the league was not tough enough on the Islanders. PAGE D2

Obituaries

BETTY GARRETT, 91

In a career spanning more than six decades, the brassy comic actress played Frank Sinatra's ardent, taxi-driving pursuer in the movie ''On the Town,'' Archie Bunker's liberal foil of a neighbor in ''All in the Family''
and a sardonic landlady in ''Laverne & Shirley.'' She was seen in theatrical revues and nightclubs and television sitcoms, but she most beguiled film audiences in a number of standout supporting
roles in the popular MGM musicals of the late 1940s. PAGE B7

CHARLES SILBERMAN, 86

A former writer and editor at Fortune magazine, he wrote about some of the most highly charged issues of the day, including race, education, crime and the state of American Jewry, and was known in particular for his books ''Crisis in Black and
White,'' ''Crisis in the Classroom: The Remaking of American Education'' and ''Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice.'' PAGE B7